1. The Sung's military was not very powerful
  2. they frequently signed treaties to stop fighting
  3. they fell apart due to differences in oppinion between civil bureaucrats
  4. because of how weak they were they made an alliance with the chin dynast
  5. they went bankrupt
  6. The Sungs did not rule over all of china the north was ruled by the empires Liao
  7. Lost the Northern part of China to a new empire due to the low miltary strength
  8. Sung severely limited the provincial military and subordinated the army to the civil government